studio desk 2

Room Divider: part 2

ok, still struggling to get my home studio into shape. However, after much thought I decided that the best way to use this room divideer was to remove the legs and mount it to the wall. TO my suprise this was the right idea. It removed sound reflections from my amps and seems to have improved my guitar sounds a lot. SO that worked out well, though I had to use a drill to get this done and it was tricky as I was only one person to mount the 5x6 room divider to the wall. IT nicely covered a window (at least for the winter) and now that it is up, I hardly see it Its not in the way and it really makes a difference. Now, I also had to move a seris of small shelves which held soem cd masters and software discs. SO that was easy enough to do, so I mounted to a different wall in the studio room. Thsi was not simole at all to try to get it to be level for one and I had to use quite a few supporting screws. But it worked well!!! So for $20.00 and some work, I really improved my sound and the studio looks better as well. In the summer, I will take down the room divider and put in the window air conditioner, but we will see about that later.

Audio Studio Desk & Speaker Stands

While I really like the $2000 ready made audio studio desk with built in racks, the $2k price tag is jsut not for me. If I had $2k to invest in my studio, it would be in gear not the audio desk. So I scratched that idea. However, visiting a thrift store, I found a desk made out of wood which was just the right size and it was $25.00. It has a nice shape, looks quite modern shape wise and the maple color, is solid and looks fairly new . Now this is more like it. I went home , measured and then got into my trusty 82' minivan which I use for hauling things,etc.. and got the desk. It's nice and sturdy and looks like maple. So, I got it into my studio room. Perfect, except for one thing. Do I keep my studio monitors on speaker stands? or not? Truth is, the speaker stands are a bit too high and with foam under the speaker to mute vibrations; the speaker seems a bit at risk of falling off and these are my Mackie hr824's at about $1300.00 pr, so I dont want to take a risk. On the desk they seem safer , more secure. On the other hand to have them on stands and out of the way leaves a lot of room for other gear. Well, I will try it both ways, but in a way the stand s might look nice, but they are a bit dangerous for the mackies I would think. Perhaps I would put the mackies on the desk and a different pair of monitors on stands later? Just not sure yet, still working this out. Also, positioning the desk is trial and errror (more on this later). Though ,wow, how nice to have a place to put some of this extra gear that was laying around.